Location: Not far enough north! | Ed,
I thought about this today while in the tractor. I run several gps units for auto steer in my tractors and think I know what the problem is. Could just be signal reliability. Our Ag systems kick off automatically when signal strength is too low to accurately steer the machine. I have the ability to monitor number of satellites and HDOP which is essentially signal accuracy. When signal strength is low steering really can start to wander along the line and pass to pass accuracy goes way down. When driving along a tree line I lose signal all together. Sometimes in the evening when sun is descending it screws things up too. These trolling motors have a much smaller antenna than the Ag systems with none of the safety's systems. Every once in a while the steering goes haywire in the middle of a field and I have to disengage it manually. This is always in conjunction with a bad signal... I'm heading to LOTW in a couple weeks and will really put the auto steer to a test and pay more attention to what happens with it through the week.
Edited by Farmer Rick 7/29/2015 4:44 PM
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